Brookhiser has done good work in writing biographies on several founding fathers of the United States. After finishing Give Me Liberty last week, I started in on Alexander Hamilton, American. It has been great so far.
Hamilton, like so many of the younger founding fathers, excelled in many areas, over and above their peers. They wrote significant works at a young age, entered college at a young age, and read far more than those around them. Hamilton was no exception.
He served as one of George Washington’s aides in the revolutionary war, helped craft the United States Constitution, and, as the first Secretary of the Treasury, was the primary architect and advocate for creating America’s first central bank – the First Bank of the United States, which was established in 1791.